$2a$ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a patch for pam ( and/or glibc ) to add > blowfish > password support (openBSD style)in Debian ?
"Many cryptographers have examined Blowfish, although there are few published results. Serge Vaudenay examined weak keys in Blowfish; there is a class of keys that can be detected--although not broken-- in Blowfish variants of 14 rounds or less. Vincent Rijmen's Ph.D. thesis includes a second-order differential attack on 4-round Blowfish that cannot be extended to more rounds." http://www.schneier.com/blowfish.html Perhaps Twofish would be the better joice. Also Schneier. No weaknesses known. VB. -- X-Pie Software GmbH Postfach 1540, 88334 Bad Waldsee Phone +49-7524-996806 Fax +49-7524-996807 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.x-pie.de
